Update: Firefox 78.0 released
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Update: Firefox 78.0 released
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
At the time of typing, "Help -> About Firefox" says "77.0.1 (64-bit) Firefox is up to date", so no doubt the delights of v78.0 await me...!
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Usually, selecting Help > About Firefox auto-updates immediately on the official release date. I don't know why it doesn't this time...
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Hello John, also Hans (grin).
I too was mystified over this.
My Options doesn't show a checkbox for auto-download (I have changed my views on automatic updates).
Is there anything to this business of being a special person, i.e. a Release Channel user?
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Firefox 78.0 is available for download from Download Firefox, but for reasons unknown to me it is currently not offered as an automatic update...
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
so you are NOT omnipotent! (grin).
I ran the "update" option, but Help About still said 77.x. I exited FF, reloaded, still at 77.
So I went to Options and Lo and behold:
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I still see
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I still see exactly what Stuart sees despite asking seven times, rebooting once and not wearing a red shirt.
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
There is clearly something strange going on with this update!
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
It appears that 78.0 contains a bug. Version 78.0.1 will be released soon.
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
You'd think by now that all the updating they do, they could get it right.
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Version 78.0.1 is now available through the internal update mechanism.
See Version 78.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on July 1, 2020
See Version 78.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on July 1, 2020
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
I loved the line that said
This is clearly a meaning of the word stable with which I was not previously familiarMozilla paused the rollout of the new stable version of the Firefox web browser that it released yesterday
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Neigh.
(minutes later) I am now at 78.0.1 automatically
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Would you not think that even a minimal amount of testing of a new browser version would show the unavailability of search engines?!
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Had it been Microsoft, I wouldn't have been surprised, but Mozilla?
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Re: Update: Firefox 78.0 released
Yabbut.
At this rate Mozilla Firefox will be at version 2004 in no time at all ...
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